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Earlier this month, it was reported that Academy Award nominated actor Tom Hardy had been fired from his Paramount+ series MobLand. While that has not yet been officially confirmed, one Hollywood source “wagers” that he’s committed “career suicide” all the same.
According to a source close to the production, Tom Hardy “refused to come out of his trailer for hours at a time” during filming on season two of the Paramount+ crime drama, keeping co-stars Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren waiting on set.
Inside source says Tom Hardy may have committed “career suicide” by making Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren wait for him on the MobLand set
“He kept the cast waiting — a power play. Keeping Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager,” the source told The Hollywood Reporter.
Hardy plays Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the Harrigan crime family led by patriarch Conrad (Brosnan) and matriarch Maeve (Mirren) in the Guy Ritchie co-directed series.
While the show has not yet been officially renewed for a third season, the source tells THR that filming is tentatively scheduled to begin in September if greenlit. Whether Hardy — who is billed as the star of the series — is a part of the third season is currently up in the air.
“Mirren, 80, who plays Maeve Harrigan in the Paramount+ crime drama series, was less than pleased with Tom’s attitude on-set, claiming he ‘swaggers around like a king’. One source claimed that he was frustrated that the series was becoming more about his co-stars Helen and Pierce while tensions with producer Jez Butterworth apparently led to threats from Jez to quit himself.”
“Sources told The Mail that she was getting increasingly frustrated’ at Tom’s attitude on set, leading to her struggling with working closely with him after they came together to make the second series in November.”
In addition to him “big-timing” the other cast members, a report from Puck News said that the Inception and The Revenant star had also been attempting to alter dialogue and provide unsolicited script notes to executive producer Jez Butterworth and creator Ronan Bennett.
Hardy has certainly been known to be difficult on set in the past, with the most infamous incident occurring when he was filming George Miller’s 2015 classic Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller previously spoke about Hardy needing to be “coaxed out of his trailer” during production, while co-star Charlize Theron said she was so intimidated by Hardy that she asked for “additional protection.”
“I don’t want to make excuses for bad behavior, but it was a tough shoot. I was in survival mode; I was really scared s—less,” Theron said.
“We were either fighting or we were icing each other — I don’t know which one is worse — and they had to deal with it in the back. It was horrible! We should not have done that; we should have been better.”
At this time, Hardy is not officially attached to any projects other than MobLand. His most recent film was the 2025 Netflix action film Havoc, which actually spent years in post-production hell after originally being shot in 2021.